Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake.

  • Elliot-Blake, Hubert.
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[1913?]
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Credit: Nerve aggregation (an important neuropathic standpoint) and medical free paths (armamentaria, &c.) / by H. Elliot-Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    peripheral and normal lines of nerve impulse impres- sions, a far 7nore important affair, and makes use of them by accumulation. And by gradually filling the plasm of the nerve tank cell it increases the chemical exchanges, and so activates the cell with its amoeboid nucleus.^ The cell and nucleus become more active. It acts first by gradual storage, and making the cell more sensitive, and when the nerve cell or centre has been thus fully sensitized, and only then, can the nerve cell be exploded by a final, exaggerated, or local discharging impulse. Climax Impulse. — This last or master focus- impulse is an equally important feature to be borne in mind. And, being the last impression impulse to throw the nerve cell into a mechanical strain or increased functional duty, it completes the nerve tank cell phenomenon. ‘ It is difficult to imagine the base of life—as we see inter- relation and symbiosis and parasitic dependence around us—on any other basis than, I believe, to recognize the nucleus of all cells as amoebic centres. It explains the continuance of life, and the attraction of food to that cell. Man is, of course, secondary to that. Indeed the cytoplasm need not be regarded as alive—but nutritional, or at any rate not so alive as the chemical nucleus. (Man (/tfs outer shell), therefore, is, more or less, a dead or an extraneous development.)